Secondary Workshops
Welcome to our Personalized Learning Cohort workshop selection page. Here, please view our offered workshops at the secondary level and then reserve your spot on the form below. Besides these workshops, please also feel free to explore our blogs and other resources.
Session Titles and Descriptions
Note: This is a two hour workshop, which means you must choose this on the form twice)
This PD will explore the intersection of personalized learning and culturally responsive teaching, providing participants with some simple techniques to support all students, and especially dependent learners, on their journey to lifelong self-directed learning.
Presenters:
Lisa and Alex
A Toolkit for Fostering Civic Engagement in the Classroom
This PD will work to provide tools about creating a ‘brave space’ for students to share their thoughts and opinions. It will also provide some ideas about how to provide students various ways in which they might “choose to participate in creating a more humane world”. The PD will also provide teacher with resources and materials for fostering a “brave space” including websites and activity ideas.
Presenters:
Jen, Anne, and Kelly
Construct new knowledge through iterative risk-taking while assessing your learners’ proficiencies and areas for growth. Participants in this session will leave with a variety of ready-to-use strategies to increase student engagement while boosting their resilience and creativity in all subject areas. All are welcome to join in the fun and then share the joy with your learners.
Presenters:
Wendy and Josh
Infusing Curriculum with Student Reflection
How and when do students reflect on their learning goals is the question most teachers are struggling with. To create a more student lead classroom we will explore examples of student reflection within different content areas.
Presenters:
Kaity and Colleen
Explore choice boards as a strategy to engage and assess students. Brainstorm and create an assessment based on content and curriculum.
Presenters:
Rob and Ashley
Student-Centered Learning: Promoting Mirrors and Windows in the Curriculum
This PD will teach strategies on how to utilize student-choice, in order to incorporate opportunities for “mirrors & windows” into the curriculum. “Mirrors” allow students to see themselves in what they learn, while “windows” allow them to see into the lives and perspectives of others.
Presenters:
Virtual Escape Rooms
Come to this workshop ready to see examples of already-implemented virtual escape rooms in math classrooms and start on one of your own! No experience necessary and welcome to all content areas and age groups!
Presenters:
Marissa, Lydia, and Jared